When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the c...ourse involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts ab...out the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a sm...all expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a great... one with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The father who believes hugs and kisses are sex-blind and a dirty diaper requires a change, not a woman, is infinitely preferable.... What a joy it would be if he were around more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »